ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,809, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYO KOHAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Current collector for battery, and battery" was invented by Shinichirou Horie (Tokyo), Hidehiko Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Koh Yoshioka (Kudamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object]To provide a current collector for battery, having a strength sufficient to suppress breakage and tears during production feared in association with thinning, and a battery having the current collector.[Solving Means]The current collector for battery according to the present invention has at least a first metal layer containing at least a metal selected from Cu, Fe, and Ni, and a se...